GLOSS Station Handbook – Minami-tori-shima
The GLOSS Station Handbook is currently being re-designed and upgraded.
Until a new version is available, the tide gauge station list below from the last version of the Handbook provides links to further details about each tide gauge in the GLOSS Core Network. Click column headings to sort the station list table. Click the GLOSS number buttons to view the station information.
Station information
| General | |
|---|---|
| Gloss number | 104 |
| Station name | Minami-tori-shima |
| Country | Japan |
| Time zone | 135E, GMT + 9 hrs |
| Latitude (+ve N) | 24.18 |
| Longitude (+ve E) | 153.58 |
| Ocean | Pacific |
| Observation periods | 1996- |
| Responsible country | Japan |
| Authority responsible for tide gauge | Oceanographical Division, Climate and Marine Department, Japan Met. Agency, 3-4, Otemachi- 1, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100, Japan |
| GLOSS contact | Japan |
| Committed to GLOSS | Yes |
| Operational | Yes |
| Instrumentation | |
| Float | No |
| Pressure | Yes |
| Bubbler | No |
| Acoustic | No |
| Radar | No |
| Data | |
| Digital data | Yes |
| Data acquisition rate | 10 seconds |
| High frequency data at BODC | Data 104 Document 118594 |
| Real-time data available | Yes |
| Additional parameters (real-time) | None |
| Benchmarks | |
| Tide gauge benchmark | Benchmark at GPS point operated 24-hour, which is 100m distant from the tide gauge |
| Benchmark relationships | The relation can apply since April 1996 |
| Data at PSMSL | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) data | Yes (Monthly metric data only available) |
| MSL method | Average of hourly readings of tide |
| PSMSL code | 1875 |
| Additional information | |
| Nearest Met. station | Minamitorishima Met. Observing |
| Last updated | 20 November 1997 |